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in hindsight, herobrine never seemed malicious. everything widely accepted as 'canon' about him - placing redstone torches, digging tunnels, watching you from afar, building sand pyramids (and sometimes he'd be thought of as the reason behind terrain / world generation glitches or even the bug where you'd find your spawn chunks repeated, or chunks from other deleted worlds cut into your current world)... it never hurt you. he simply existed, and made things.

i can't help but wonder, did he just want a friend? did he build sand pyramids because he saw another player do it and thought they looked cool? does he only use redstone torches because he's light sensitive and the lower light levels are nicer on his eyes? does he sometimes copy the chunk your house is in because he liked your house and wanted to live in it too, but was too scared to ask you?

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They’ll never do a Hitman level set in a Furry Convention because gamers would absolutely ruin it but imagine. like the target isn’t a furry he just owns a hotel that happens to have one every year but you can disguise yourself in a fursuit and some guy will ask you “what species is your sona” and 47 would be like “a wolf. i always felt a connection with…hunters.” and then diana would be like “let’s see if you can sniff out some information, furrty-seven” and then he comes to my house and kills me for writing this

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So. I’ve been laughing about this like all day and I need to talk about it. My gay ship just went canon in the most male power fantasy game of all time.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 recently released (I’ve been playing it, it’s good). It’s an RPG set in medieval Bohemia. You play as Henry, a blacksmith’s son. The first game, released back in 2018, starts with your village being burned to the ground and everyone either is killed or has to flee. The rest of that game is you trying to, among various things, deal with your trauma and get revenge. It’s a very well executed story in my opinion.

A notable character in the game is Lord Hans Capon, who was a real guy but the game version is a bit loosely based on him. Hans and Henry become rivals then friends. Their noble/peasant dynamic is reminiscent of Arthur and Merlin in BBC Merlin (though I would argue the class dynamics are far better executed and more nuanced). Like ten people including me decided to ship them.

The first game was a bit rough but overall good. It garnered a decent audience, including a notably large audience of straight white men who really like medieval history but not enough to know much about it beyond swords are cool. You get the picture.

The second game is announced. Those guys I mentioned are super excited!

Well. As it turns out there’s going to be a homosexual relationship in the game, according to an announcement made by the director at the end of January. Uh oh. W-well as long as it’s not the main character-

Cue release day, February 4th. IT IS!!!

HANS AND HENRY. It’s THEM! They have sex ON SCREEN. No nuance about it (though it’s important to note this is an option you have to CHOOSE).

The guys go crazy. KCD has gone woke they cry. And to make it worse there’s *gasp* a black man in a Bohemian court! DEI!

I can’t believe Warhorse Studios did it. I’m genuinely amazed. I have never been so vindicated in my life.

Everyone play this game for the love of god. The combat is tough but there’s plenty of guides online. It’s worth it I promise.

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whenever i see that post about swapping female characters with male ones in video games i always think about this

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"my silly little war criminal :3 I need him BAD"

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its not a greentext but can we all agree the capra demon post is the best 4chan post

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kicked out of silent hill for trying to date one of the nurses

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Another thing that drives me crazy (positive) about elder scrolls lore is that there’s some cultures that straight up hate magic. Orcs, redguards, and nords culturally don’t like magic and yet you find orc, redguard, and Nord mages anyways.

In oblivion there’s a Redguard mage you meet who admits he moved to cyrodiil to study magic and he still has some personal hang-ups about certain kinds of magic. Illusion magic in particular makes him uncomfortable.

In Skyrim at the college of winterhold an orc runs the library and you can meet a new student who’s disappointed he’s the only Nord there but not surprised.

You also across the series meet high elves who don’t practice magic and run horse stables or work as bakers or military captains, Bretons that are pure fighter types, see mages in the halls of sovngarde, dark elves that work as priests for the imperial pantheon, Khajiit who talk like men and mer, former bandits turned knights, and many more people who don’t fit the cookie cutter mold you’d expect from their archetype.

Yes nords in general don’t trust wizards. Yes every single regional leader in Skyrim understands the utility of having a court wizard and employs one despite their peoples superstitions.

It’s one of the few more nuanced things I think Bethesda gets right. Probably because they’re decent at environmental storytelling and well the people in the world are part of the environment. We’ve got complex societies here with some incredibly ham fisted writing thrown on top.

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Someone made a homophobic comment in a drawing I made of them on insta from TWO YEARS AGO and I got so mad that I put all my other projects on hold so l could draw two characters that aren't even trending right now kissing. Don't piss me off or I will draw them marrying and raising a family together.

If that wasn't clear I don't tolerate any kind of prejudice, so if you are close minded don't interact with me

Old drawings I made of them under the cut

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help I’m dying

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Random headcanon: the reason that Peach and Bowser don’t seem to get a lot of respect in some Super Mario games is because the Mushroom Kingdom is kind of a rural backwater and isn’t terribly important or influential politically, so people tend to regard Bowser as a C-list villain for being so hung up on such an insignificant conquest. Nobody really expects Bowser to be a serious threat – that would be like expecting a guy whose main claim to fame is repeatedly failing to conquer Wyoming to be a serious threat – so they get taken by surprise every single time.

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"*shrugs*"

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People really do assume the FromSoft formula is just "super hard boss fights" but really it's Tall Ladies, Hidetaka Miyazaki's barely contained masochistic death fetish, incredibly hard but usually fair boss fights, community graffiti, annoying rat, even more annoying dog, walk walk fashion baby, poison swamp, bottomless pit, Large Jovial Dad Figure, jolly cooperation, Berserk Reference, and slapstick comedy.

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As a Sims 2 player one of the most eerie things about playing the original game isn't necessarily the creepy/more liminal aesthetic or the repetitively endless gameplay, but the fact that almost all the pre-made Sims from the original game are inexorably doomed by the narrative.

There's something odd about Pleasantview specifically, where the majority of the returning Sim families live (save for Tara Kat, who seems... relatively fine). Like, the concept of the game is that twenty-five years have passed, and all of the returning characters are pre-baked into character arcs that communicate an unavoidable truth: You, the player, failed.

Bella Goth will disappear. Her brother (though in the original Sims we aren't aware that Michael Bachelor is her brother) will die, possibly murdered. Mortimer will be lost and alone. Cassandra will be stuck in an unloving engagement. The Newbie's daughter will be impoverished, a single mother whose husband died young, with two boys and another on the way. Daniel Pleasant will grow up to be a cheater. Jennifer Pleasant will never be an athlete like she wanted (her brother will). And though poor Johnny Burb never mentions Tucker anymore, you know that old dog died years ago. The Roomies, the Mashugas, the Hicks, the Charmings - all leave town... or worse, die out.

I think about Jeff Pleasant's bio in the first game: "Jeff and his family are new to the neighborhood. Can you help Jeff provide for his family and fulfill his lifelong goal of being the first man to walk on Mars?" And how it contrasts to Daniel's in the second: "Since his father Jeff died without achieving his dream of going to Mars, Daniel has felt an overwhelming guilt."

And sure, you can save the families of Pleasantview. You can choose for Mary-Sue to not go to work that day, or maybe Daniel never pursues Kaylynn Langerak again. You can give Cassandra a happy marriage, tame Don Lothario's womanizer ways. You can financially save Brandi Broke. You can get John Burb another dog. You can get Jennifer the career she always wanted. You can defy the scripted in-game prompts and say "No. I don't want to play like this." You can break the cycle, every time you play.

And yet, at the end of the day, no matter what you do... uninstalling the game and reinstalling it, maybe just deleting that Neighborhood folder, they are reset back to exactly where they were again. They're doomed to repeat it forever.

The game makes it clear that there are some things you aren't meant to change. A genie lamp or a Resurrect-O-Nomitron can bring back sims like Michael Bachelor, but you will pay for it in your neighborhood deteriorating to corruption. And no matter what you do, no force in the universe can bring Bella Goth back. The one in Strangetown isn't even really her, after all. And maybe she isn't. They say they deleted her in development, replaced her with a clone. Maybe that's what Bella Goth in Strangetown is. A clone. Maybe we were wrong, after all. Maybe she was never abducted by aliens. Maybe Don Lothario killed her. Maybe Dina Caliente killed her. Maybe Mortimer did. But you can't bring her back, no matter what you do. Recreate the original Bella, pixel by pixel, extract her data, make your zombie Bella. Build your own monster. Create a sim. But she will never recognize her family. Never see them as her own.

And she was never meant to.

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Me in loud hill looking for my alive wife

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woah dude….. your hurt sound is vaguely sexual….. im trying to kill you but im. im getting a bit flustered